The following titles from the New Science Fiction collection
all contain elements of magic.
Imaro is a heroic
fantasy novel based on African traditions and legends. The setting author
Charles Saunders created is Nyumbani (which means home in Swahili), an amalgam
of the real, the semi-real, and the unreal.
Imaro is the name of the larger-than-life warrior who is the hero of the
story, an outcast who travels across Nyumbani, searching for home.
In V.E. Schwab’s A
Darker Shade of Magic (2015), London
is the link between parallel universes, and magician Kell is one of two
Travelers who can move between them. Something sinister is disturbing their
equilibrium, and Kell must try to unravel the plot with only feisty street
thief Delilah Bard as an ally. A second book in the Shades of Magic series came
out this year; A Gathering of Shadows
picks up the story four months after the events of the first novel are
resolved.
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders tells
the story of childhood friends Patricia and Laurence, one who has
developed magical powers and the other who has invented a time machine. They reunite as adults, living in the hipster mecca San
Francisco as the planet starts falling apart around them. Laurence is an engineering genius who's working with
a group that aims to avert catastrophic breakdown through technological intervention. Patricia works with a small band of other
magicians to secretly repair the world's ever-growing
ailments. Together they form a magical, darkly funny examination of life, love,
and the apocalypse.
Michael Moorcock creates a magical world known as Alsation
in his new novel The Whispering Swarm.
Back in the Thirteenth Century, King Henry III granted a
plot of land in the heart of London to an order of Friars. This sanctuary
became a refuge for many of ill-repute, as the Friars cast no judgment and took
in all who were in search of solace. Known as Alsatia, it did not suffer like
the rest of the world. No Plague affected it. No Great Fire burned it. No Blitz
destroyed it. Within its walls lies a secret to existence--one that has been
kept since the dawn of time--a bevy of creation, where reality and romance,
life and death and imagination share the same world. One young man's entrance
into this realm sends a shockwave of chaos through time and the center of this
sacred place is threatened for the first time.
In Zen Cho’s sparkling debut, Sorcerer to the Crown, magic and mayhem clash with the British
elite. The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, one of the most respected
organizations throughout all of England, has long been tasked with maintaining
magic within His Majesty's lands. But lately, the once proper institute has
fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman--a freed slave
who doesn't even have a familiar--as their Sorcerer Royal, and allowing
England's once profuse stores of magic to slowly bleed dry. At his wit's end,
Zacharias Wythe, Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural, ventures to the border of
Fairyland to discover why England's magical stocks are drying up. But when his
adventure brings him in contact with a most unusual comrade, a woman with
immense power and an unfathomable gift, he sets on a path which will alter the
nature of sorcery in all of Britain--and the world at large.
Wake of Vultures by
Lila Bowen is a dark fantasy of destiny, death, and
the supernatural world that is hidden beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome
lives in a land of hard people and hard ground
dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy and is raised by
folks who use her like a slave. She knows of nothing
else. That is until the day an encounter with a violent stranger leads Nettie
to a clearer vision of how things stand. Nettie has no choice but to set out on a quest
that might lead to her true kin... if the monsters along the way don't kill her
first.
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